SELF: Anatomy of an (alleged) failure

Lobbying a community never does good. It's annoying and just adds unnecessary noise that makes me feel like running away from the topic.
If you're unhappy with the development process, get involved, gain more importance by providing insightful reviews, and alternatives to patches that you dislike, and then people will listen.

But jumping in with "+1 I could use that" or "the review process here is awfuly broken"-type of comments is just not going to help